Desperate Game:
A Desperate Game: A Comic Drama in One Act
作者：Morton, John Maddison, 1811-1891
体例：题 章数：33
字数：47,686 来源：Project Gutenberg
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章节目录
共 33 题- A DESPERATE GAME.
- IN ONE ACT.
- AUTHOR OF
- SCENE--_Tunbridge Wells._
- A DESPERATE GAME.
- RAT. (L.) Do not be alarmed, madam, I beg. (_advancing slowly_)
- RAT. Here, madam, is the receipt. (_rising_)
- MRS. S. Then you have heard----
- MRS. S. (_contemptuously_) And you did _nothing._
- RAT. (_without_) But, my dear fellow--
- I never applied for the appointment; there's some mistake.
- RAT. Yes, I was going home from a bachelor's party. (_confused_)
- RAT. Pshaw! I shall resign at once. (_going_)
- POS. (L.) That's right--you must know then. (_seats himself_)
- POS. But really my back aches to that degree--
- POS. Very well--you must know then, old chap--
- RAT. Again--
- POS. Well, in I rushed, and the first thing I saw was----
- RAT. True! (_smiling_)
- MRS. S. (_looking at him_) One perhaps, whose position in society----
- MRS. S. No, that person. (_pointing to RATCLIFFE_)
- MRS. S. And you _will remain here till I return?_ (_significantly_)
- POS. Oh lud! (_slightly staggering_)
- RAT. Indeed! (_aside_) The devil! (_aloud_) and his name is----
- POS. (_at door_) Will he! (_disappears_)
- RAT. Can it be possible? (_with rapture_)
- RAT. Oh, madam! (_kissing her hand_)
- MRS. S. Hark! (_noise without_)
- POS. Ecod, it's more like "Beat my neighbour out of doors!"
- CURTAIN.
- PRINTED BY THOMAS SCOTT, WARWICK COURT, HOLBORN.
- Transcriber's Note
- End of Project Gutenberg's A Desperate Game, by John Maddison Morton